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    News Hand 386 Delivers A "True 386 Processor" in a Handheld

    Woof, good catch! I'm curious about the thought process that went into "We have this massive shipment of PC/104 boards from e-waste...I know, let's hit them all with a hot air gun to get the processor and then break into the retro DOS gaming market!"
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    News Hand 386 Delivers A "True 386 Processor" in a Handheld

    Here's the datasheet for the main IC, it's a 386SX combined with the ALi M1217 chipset in one: http://www.dmp.com.tw/app/webcamera/pdf/m6117d.pdf This looks to be a much older DM&P offering (their current stuff is all the Vortex86 line I think) so my guess is someone found a crate of...
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    Review Intel Arc A380 Review: Great for Video, Weak for Gaming

    Awesome, thanks for the reply! Yep I'm using the default for 1080p, I assumed I had to specify the location of the model. I'll just leave it in there in my notes so I remember it when I try it against 4k video :) I'll give the bicubic scaling a try to see if that changes anything.
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    Review Intel Arc A380 Review: Great for Video, Weak for Gaming

    Sorry about the necropost, but this article inspired me to a) backorder an A380 for video transcoding (which should hopefully ship some day but its date keeps getting pushed back), and b) try out ffmpeg/VMAF to do some comparisons of my own with various Handbrake settings for place-shifting my...